The Royal
Horticultural Society (RHS) has upgraded to Compellent
Storage Center 5 and is using its Portable Volume component to cut replication times by 80%.
The portable disk drive product allows the RHS to fully back up production data totalling
approximately 5.5 TB every two days from its central London headquarters to its Vauxhall disaster
recovery (DR) site. Previously, the organisation used Compellent replication over its wide-area
network (WAN), which resulted in backups being weeks behind due to insufficient bandwidth.

Compellent Portable Volume is an external disk drive product that mirrors the logical unit
number (LUN) structure of production and secondary storage-area networks (SANs). The product allows
users to copy data to its volumes, physically transport them offsite and move data over to mirrored
LUN volumes at the DR site with no further configuration.

Martin
Taylor, converged network manager at the RHS, said Portable Volume successfully addressed a
situation that could only otherwise be resolved by spending a lot more money on the organisation's
WAN link. "The problem we faced was replicating to the DR site via a limited WAN connection," he
said. "We're a mid-sized organisation and a charity. If we had money to throw at a bigger WAN
connection we would, but this way of doing things cuts replication time down by about 80%."

LinkShare deploys 3PAR tiered SAN to cut costs, power consumption

Online marketing business LinkShare deployed 3PAR InServ Storage Servers in its virtual data
centre to support increased activity during the holiday shopping season. LinkShare chose tiered
InServ arrays to handle heavy traffic over the period and expects to save up to £125,000 per year
on administration costs while also cutting
data centre footprint and power consumption by 50%. The InServ arrays' autonomic storage
management capabilities dynamically distribute workloads across array resources and reduce storage
administration time.

DataCore boosts virtual disk capacity to 1 PB

Virtualised data storage vendor DataCore Software has increased the size of its virtual
disks from 2 TB to 1 PB. The DataCore product – which also incorporates thin provisioning –
allows users to create RAID-enabled SANs from commodity and distributed direct-attached storage
(DAS). The company expects to offer up to 2 PB capacity in future.

Gridstore launches clustered NAS

Network-attached
storage (NAS)vendor
Gridstore has launched the beta of its new NASg storage platform. The Gridstore NASg platform virtualises existing NAS or NASg
storage nodes into a single pool of storage to eliminate single points of failure and boost network
and processing efficiency. It helps eliminate server network bottlenecks by utilising parallel IO
to the storage nodes. NASg also aggregates processing power across a grid of client machines to
eliminate server-based processing bottlenecks.

Modern Networks gains top APSP NetApp rating

Hertfordshire-based reseller Modern Networks has achieved the level of Authorised Professional
Service Partner (APSP) with NetApp, which is NetApp's highest professional services partner status.
The APSP accreditation will enable Modern Networks to offer professional services in addition to
its existing NetApp storage solutions portfolio. With the accreditation, Modern Networks will now
have access to the same tools and methodologies used by NetApp professional service engineers.

PoINT releases v2.0 of tiering tool

German vendor PoINT Software & Systems has released Version 2.0 of PoINT Storage Manager.
The product allows users to manage tiered
storage on Windows NTFS-based systems and NetApp FAS products. The product migrates less
frequently used data from high-performance drives to more cost-efficient media.

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